Yi Lu, MD PhD is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr Lu graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, completed his neurosurgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowship in Complex Spine Surgery at University of Miami School of Medicine. Dr Lu returned to Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he currently serves as the Director of Neurosurgical Trauma and Co-Director of Adult Degeneration and Scoliosis Center. Dr Lu specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery, spinal deformity surgery, lateral approach spine surgery, spinal trauma, spinal tumor, etc. Dr Lu is also a devoted physician-scientist studying 1) molecular mechanisms of discogenic back pain and 2) central nervous system injury including spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.  Dr Lu serves as the Co-Chairman of Spinal Cord Injury Section at North American Spine Society (NASS). In addition, Dr Lu serves as the Chair of Payor Response Committee and on the Executive Committee and Scientific Program Committee at AANS/CNS Spine Section. Dr Lu has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and 10 book chapters on spinal cord injury and spinal surgery. In 2014, Dr Lu co-edited a textbook entitled “Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery: An Evolution of Modern Techniques”. Dr Lu lives in Boston with his wife, Dr. Katie Luo, a renowned ophthalmologist at Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary and their daughter Sophie.